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The sad thing is you wonder what another director would have made it. Doubly ironic that Terry Gilliam was in the cast. Despite all the special effects etc etc it seemed a bit unimaginative, flat and conventional.
7 seems about right to me. It was an expertly made film and the cast was very good. I particularly enjoyed the cinematography which was almost manga-like at times. But overall a little predicable and disappointing. I've not read the book or seen the BBC production yet it all seemed a bit familiar - perhaps it's the original victorian-british story line that made it so.
So torture and porn are OK family viewing but lesbian love making is not ! Have to be honest - that seem seriously warped to me.
Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling! Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes... The dead rising from the grave! Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!
This is true, not the kind of film that attracts Oscars - though I wonder if that might have been different in earlier times (70s). But I just don't see the paedophilic aspect in this film. Matilda was very sexually knowing but Leon was unresponsive and I think he loved her in an innocent protective way. It was a family unit - pretty wierd family without the usual defined roles but perhaps more like elder brother and street-wise younger sister than anything else.
Agreed. Is it really 23 years! Seems completely fresh and undated.
I think Oldman is great in this film, even though the accent does seem to slip a little - but Walken is a very interesting idea.
I thought it was a lot better than just OK and really enjoyed it. It may not be in the same league as a Studio Ghibli classic but I'll be watching it again (and again).
PG sounds reasonable to me. I was in a cinema where I'm pretty certain there were kids younger than 12. But there is a little more in this film than some boob fondling and it had typical manga schoolgirl imagery that does give a parent pause for thought.
I remember a lot of publicity/interest around The Tamarind Seed and reoccurring news items about Julie Andrews as a sex symbol. It's not as if she disappeared - perhaps more the case they stopped making certain types of films?
CC was the reason I watched this rubbish. I really wish she'd turn up more often and in better productions. To be fair I thought the cast was OK but they couldn't overcome the handicap of this cheap, clichéd waste of time.
If you read a few of the other threads it appears this pretty average TV like movie hits the button with certain audiences. Personally I liked a lot of the cast and that's the only reason I enjoyed it as much as I did.
A deathbed scene would have been horrible and mawkishly and I would not have wanted to watch it. But having said that I was really surprised she did die. I just assumed they would find a cure because that's the kind of movie this was.
Seems to be doing OK outside the USA. The same for Lucy according to box office mojo.
I thought that when I saw it all those years ago. Watching it again recently and the message seemed less intrusive, the quirky romance more enjoyable.
Agreed. I prefer to not overthink a film when I'm watching but when they keep doing stupid things to move the story along I can't help thinking - why?
That's a fair description. If it had been a 1950's B movie I would have accepted it's failings and probably enjoyed. I guess I expect more from a current film these.
I thought he was fine - they were all fine - pity the film wasn't.
I'm not sure if it's the character or my inability to divorce this character from Sheldon Cooper. Then again here he is playing a nerdy scientist looking very like his BB character - perhaps he needs to pick a radically different role to escape type casting for the rest of his career?
Regarding the character it's interesting they had that little scene at the end to prove the he's changed (evolved?) and was working with Catherine as an equal - which presumably also makes him a better manager.
I've not seen Moonlight yet but I did catch Loving a few weeks ago and I think it's much better than Hidden Figures.
I'm not saying Hidden Figures is a poor film - I enjoyed the film and liked the cast especially the three leading ladies. But it feels a bit worthy and taps away at the theme of discrimination and we're given a series of emotionally charged moments along the way to respond to.
By contrast Loving is a story told in a relatively low key way and superbly acted by the two leads. The constant pressure of discrimination is always there but there are no histrionics to underline it - the story, also a true story, just feels more natural.